This chapter is from the book

In this chapter, you download Unity, the game development environment that you will use throughout the rest of this book. We talk about why Unity is a fantastic game development tool for any budding game designer or developer and why we’ve chosen C# as the language for you to learn.

You also take a look at the sample project that ships with Unity, learn about the various window panes in the Unity interface, and move these panes into a logical arrangement that will match the examples you see in the rest of the book.

Downloading Unity

First things first, let’s start downloading Unity. The Unity installer is over 1 GB in size, so depending on your Internet speed, this could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. After you’ve gotten this process started, we can move on to talking about Unity.

As of this writing, the latest major version of Unity is Unity 4. Because Unity is under constant development, the current minor version should be something like 4.x.y, with the x and y being sub-version numbers. Regardless of version, Unity is always available for free from Unity’s official website: